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New comment by dralley in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

dralley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:57:41 +0000

Well, that will certainly be an issue for nuclear power capacity in the future.

New comment by dralley in "Tesla Roadster"

dralley — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:59:32 +0000

It's just a Lotus body, though I agree that Lotus cars are pretty

New comment by dralley in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

dralley — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:41:33 +0000

Why does Russia whitewash Stalin in 2024/5/6?

New comment by dralley in "Python 3.15"

dralley — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:28:54 +0000

Correct. e.g. RHEL 9 has Python 3.14 available

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhel-app-st...

The support lifecycles are divergent from the rest of the OS though. Only the base Python version gets full lifecycle support, the newer versions get refreshed occasionally and eventually fall out of support.

New comment by dralley in "Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust"

dralley — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:01:16 +0000

They're not that far apart anymore. Wild is still faster on average but they trade blows occasionally. Both are well ahead of the next best.

New comment by dralley in "How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026"

dralley — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:03:48 +0000

It's unlikely that many people are using Rust without using Option or Result a fair bit. Idiomatic Rust fundamentally uses a lot of generics. And a basic for loop expands into quite a lot of intermediate representation due to Iterator.

New comment by dralley in "How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026"

dralley — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:48:16 +0000

This is not actually the main reason, most of the time.

Generics/monomorphization and how iterators work results in a lot of compiler bytecode that has to be churned through. More bytecode = longer compilation. It increases the size of the (debug) binaries, the debuginfo in general, causes performance issues with debug binaries in some situations unless you bump the optimization level, causes more IO, etc.

New comment by dralley in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

dralley — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:47:56 +0000

The project was started long before LLMs existed.

New comment by dralley in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

dralley — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:49:09 +0000

There is a rustc_codegen_clr which transpiles to .NET

https://github.com/fractalfir/rustc_codegen_clr

New comment by dralley in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

dralley — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:00:26 +0000

>overhaul Firefox to be all our Rust as Quantum was aiming towards

That was not in fact the purpose of project Quantum

The Secret Agents Behind Russia's Olympic Doping Machine [video]

dralley — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:31:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwmkLKlTNoo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526011

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dralley in "Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur"

dralley — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:09:25 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs

New comment by dralley in "Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds"

dralley — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:20:56 +0000

It has supposedly dropped to below 10% (but higher on average in rural areas than in cities, and of course that's just smoking, not the use of other nicotine products)

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/u-s-smoking-rate-hits-an-all-t...

The article suggests that 18%+ are using some kind of nicotine product in general (zyn, chewing tobacco, vape, smoking)

In any case it has been mostly successfully purged from public spaces.

New comment by dralley in "Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds"

dralley — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:22:10 +0000

They've mostly switched to vapes now. It's still annoying, but at least it doesn't leave trash all over the streets.

Seeing the sidewalks / parks outside of the main train station in Prague covered in cigarette butts as an American tourist in 2019 was certainly something.

New comment by dralley in "Linux 7.2"

dralley — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:17:30 +0000

DRM = Direct Rendering Manager. GPU scheduling.

New comment by dralley in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

dralley — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:21:21 +0000

The latency isn't that bad, it's reasonable for a compatibility shim.

New comment by dralley in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

dralley — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:19:50 +0000

>and intentionally stifled improvement on xorg

Open source developers are not required to spend their time prioritizing your priorities. You just have to look to Xlibre to see that a lot of contributions are quite bad quality, and in a C codebase of Xorg's complexity and security profile it's not a small job to review things.

New comment by dralley in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

dralley — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:29:00 +0000

Xorg's security (and X11 in general) is objectively terrible - this is not even a debatable question.

New comment by dralley in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

dralley — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:14:29 +0000

Xorg isn't neglected for "ideological reasons", it's neglected because development is work - and most of the people with knowledge of the problem domain decided they didn't want to work on Xorg anymore, and most of the companies that were paying for it decided they didn't want to pay for it anymore (apart from baseline maintenance, Xwayland and security fixes). And the people who want Xorg support maintained in perpetuity rarely seem interested in maintaining Xorg themselves, at least not properly (see this history of Xlibre introducing bugs and LLM slop).

You are free to spend your own time and resources doing the work, but you don't get to dictate how other people spend theirs.

New comment by dralley in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

dralley — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:09:37 +0000

Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol.

A lot of the "existing functionality" that it broke has nothing to do with displays, it's stuff that got crammed into Xorg at some point whether it made sense or not.

I find it quite funny that many of the same people that rag on systemd and say it does too many things, are big fans of Xorg doing a bunch of things that "display server" probably should not be handling.

Even if Wayland was a "display server", it would still "remove existing functionality" if it meant that in any principled sense, because "display server" is only half of what Xorg does.

But sure, the transition was difficult and took a long time.